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#and all my time reading old letters on the loc website came in handy
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#so my brother found a box full of documents
#from when some semi-distant relative was researching family geneaology
#and all my time reading old letters on the loc website came in handy
#because it meant i could decipher the handwritten document
#of my great-great-grandfather's life story
#and read it for everyone as we hung out before family sunday dinner
#and the pressure is now on for all the unmarried family members
#we've got a legacy to live up to with courtship stories
#it seems my great-great-grandfather came to america after a failed engagement
#a few years later he met a girl and her parents outside of church
#the father hired him to work on his farm
#three days later the girl rode with him in a wagon somewhere on some farm business
#and she was like 'i've been thinking about you day and night since i first saw you and this is our first chance to speak alone'
#and she was like 'we should get married' and he agreed and they shook hands
#though they did wait until the next sunday to formalize the engagement
#they waited three months to ask for her father's blessing
#which they got
#they got married two months later
#and were married for 35 years
#until the morning of the day they were scheduled to take their first out-of-state trip
#(he was excited to give her a chance to travel after a life of knowing only home and work)
#and he woke up to find her dead beside him
#he was writing this not long after and you can tell he was heartbroken
#so the marriage was clearly successful
#so anyway my one brother was like 'now i feel unsuccessful. i've never found a woman who wanted to marry me after three days'
#and my married brother told all us unmarried ones that he expects us to be engaged by next week
#clearly it can be done
#and anyway it's so interesting to know the details
#after only vaguely knowing this guy's name
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